Sucks and DayTime: is it the yeast or hop profile I'm tasting?

Ok, shame me if you will, but there is a predominate taste (for lack of a better word) that runs thru both of these beers. The best way I can describe it would be like cat wizz smell like taste that over powers any of the other flavors. I've also noticed the same thing with fresh 60 Minute. Any thoughts on what it is I'm picking up on?

A couple BAs in the mountain region have stated that Lagunitas' beers have a cat pee and/or onion/garlic characteristics to them. I don't really get the cat pee, but some simcoe hops allow me to perceive some onion/garlic. Maybe I just don't know what cat pee tastes like--do they eat onions?

Hop profile for sure, although I get zero cat piss in either of those beers. Simcoes can somtimes give you that taste you are describing.

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I might get zero cat pee out of a beer, but my wife can by just smelling the beer I am drinking. We all have different aroma receptors. Had a Sucks tonight, and it was piney to me, a little cat piss and other stuff going on. My wife would not let it touch her lips, all she said was "cat piss".

The onoin/garlic things is from hops like Summit, that have been kept on the bine for while to increase the AA.

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For me, Double Jack was the first beer that I ever encountered that gave me a cat piss quality. Prior to that, whenever I heard people talking about cat piss I always said to myself "this is absurd, whoever says they get cat piss out of beer is either making shit up or reaaaaaally subject to the power of suggestion" (as if some people aren't) and then I had a glass of Double Jack one day. Took a whiff and thought, "Huh. Cat piss. I'll be damned."

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Had Sucks for the first time tonight and the first thing I smelled out of it was cat piss. I own a cat(or rather the cat owns me) so I'm quite familiar with the smell. Highly disappointing. It should also be noted that I love IPAs and DIPAs and this is the first time I came across cat piss in a beer.

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Ok, I should have known better than to use the "cat pee" tag. That was the best way I could describe it. (I tried).

The Simcoe onion/garlic characteristics makes sense.

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SO there seems to be a consensus that Simcoe hops can cause a "cat piss" type smell/taste? I've never gotten anything close to something resembling that in any IPA. Weyerbacher's Double Simcoe DIPA is one of my favorite IPA's, and I certainly don't get any "cat piss" or "onion" flavors/smells from that either.